In addition, it has created a series of facilities that invite the viewer to interact with the work of art. One of them, entitled Ping-Pong tableit is a ping-pong table that Orozco modified to include a circular hole in the center. Another of its outstanding facilities is Mobile Mátrix In the Basque Conceiver Library of Mexico City, which is a bone structure of a gray whale of 1,696 kilos, which was intervened by the artist.
In 1999, he founded the Kurimanzutto gallery with José Kuri and Mónica Manzuttowith the purpose of offering a space for the development of risky and rarely seen projects in commercial galleries.
Mobile Mátrix It is a work by Gabriel Orozco, who transformed a bone structure of a gray whale of 1,696 kilos, into a piece of art that has become the icon of the Basque Concelos Library.Jeff Greenberg / Getty images
His work has been exhibited in the main museums and galleries around the world, including Tate Modern de Londonhe Pompidou Center in Paris and the New York Guggenheim Museum. He has received numerous awards and distinctions for his work. And in 2009, Orozco was the subject of an important retrospect in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 2017 it opened **ORXXO ** In the Kurimanzutto gallery, an exact replica of the famous store where 300 products with stickers that were sold at a higher price intervened. This installation has been one of the most controversial of the artist, provoking reactions found. However, Orozco maintained his position that the intention of the work was rethink consumption and production dynamics by rethinking the marketing of current art and question to what extent art must be merchandise.
Gabriel Orozco, installation view of “Oredoxxo”, 2016.Courtesy of the artist and study Michel Zabé
One of its greatest projects of the moment develops it in the Chapultepec forest In Mexico City, where the natural area will intervene to rehabilitate it and create a dialogue between the forest and cultural spaces.
Gabriel has consecrated himself as one of the most successful contemporary art artists in the world. His ability to transform everyday objects into works of art, as well as his willingness to experiment with different media and techniques, have earned him a deserved place among the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. “I think my work can be fun and serious. I intervene the reality of what is already there, ”Gabriel said about his work.